When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.